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Government Response to the BIS Committee Report on the Post-Finch House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Open Access: Responses to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2013–14 Third Special Report of Session 2013– 14 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19 November 2013 HC 833 Published on 26 November 2013 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 Business, Innovation and Skills Committee The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Current membership Mr Adrian Bailey MP (Labour, West Bromwich West) (Chair) Mr William Bain MP (Labour, Glasgow North East) Mr Brian Binley MP (Conservative, Northampton South) Paul Blomfield MP (Labour, Sheffield Central) Katy Clark MP (Labour, North Ayrshire and Arran) Mike Crockart MP (Liberal Democrat, Edinburgh West) Caroline Dinenage MP (Conservative, Gosport) Rebecca Harris MP (Conservative, Castle Point) Ann McKechin MP (Labour, Glasgow North) Mr Robin Walker MP (Conservative, Worcester) Nadhim Zahawi MP (Conservative, Stratford-upon-Avon) The following members were also members of the Committee during the parliament. Luciana Berger MP (Labour, Liverpool, Wavertree) Jack Dromey MP (Labour, Birmingham, Erdington) Julie Elliott MP (Labour, Sunderland Central) Margot James MP (Conservative, Stourbridge) Dan Jarvis MP (Labour, Barnsley Central) Simon Kirby MP (Conservative, Brighton Kemptown) Gregg McClymont MP (Labour, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Ian Murray MP (Labour, Edinburgh South) Nicky Morgan MP (Conservative, Loughborough) Chi Onwurah MP (Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Rachel Reeves MP (Labour, Leeds West) Mr David Ward MP (Liberal Democrat, Bradford East) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publications The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet at www.parliament.uk/bis. A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is at the back of this volume. The Reports of the Committee, the formal minutes relating to that report, oral evidence taken and some or all written evidence are available in a printed volume. Additional written evidence may be published on the internet only. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are James Davies (Clerk), Amelia Aspden (Second Clerk), Peter Stam (Committee Specialist), Josephine Willows (Committee Specialist), Ian Hook (Senior Committee Assistant), Pam Morris (Committee Assistant), Henry Ayi-Hyde (Committee Support Assistant). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, House of Commons, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 5777; the Committee’s email address is [email protected] Contents Page Third Special Report 1 Appendix 1: Government Response 1 Appendix 2: Response from Research Councils UK 14 Open Access: Responses to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2013-14 1 Third Special Report The Committee published its Fifth Report of Session 2013–14, Open Access, on 10 September 2013. The Government’s Response was received on 12 November 2013 and is appended to this Report at Appendix 1. The Research Council UK’s Response was received on 11 November 2013 and is appended to this Report at Appendix 2. Appendix 1: Government Response The Government welcomes the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (BISCOM) report on Open Access (OA). Government’s OA policy is based on the principle that the taxpayer should have free access to the published findings of publicly funded research. Better access should result in a more productive research process, greater use of research findings and consequently more economic and social benefits from research. The Committee’s report has helpfully acknowledged that the Government is right to make publicly funded and published research freely and openly available and that in the long term the most effective form of OA will be Gold OA. Government was pleased to note that there is no distinction to be made between the Government’s and BISCOM’s direction of travel for OA. The envisaged final destination is likely to be what the Finch Group termed a ‘mixed economy’ of Gold and Green OA, the proportions of which the decisions of researchers and behaviour in the market will decide. Government’s approach, therefore, amounts to a subtle re-engineering of the present market. By ‘nudging’ the flow of revenue for the publishing industry towards it becoming income from Article Publication Charges (APCs) for Gold OA, decisions made by individual researchers on the payment of APCs for publication in the journal of their choice will eventually create a more competitive ‘substitute good’ research publications market. This change should help to moderate the historical trend of the current ‘complementary good’ market that has witnessed increasing costs to libraries as referred to in the Committee’s report. The approach that Government took throughout the Finch Group process was intended to recast relationships and establish shared values and objectives to effect real change in the public interest. Whilst, as we keep saying, we are on a journey, the evidence so far is encouraging. David Willetts was recently invited by Janet Finch to the long-standing final meeting of the Finch Group to reflect on progress that has been made. Janet Finch will be publishing her independent report on progress incorporating discussions at that meeting. The Publishers Association positively reported that, on the basis of a recent survey conducted amongst its members, within only a year: 70% of journals now publish Gold or include a Gold OA option; Of these, 82% allow the author to choose a CC-BY licence; 96% of journals have an embargo period of 24 months or less; 64% of journals have an embargo period of 12 months or less. 2 Open Access: Responses to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2013-14 This illustrates the extent to which the Government’s policy already is being complied with, but there is no room for complacency in the UK research publications industry and scope for further improvements are discussed below. RCUK’s review in late 2014 will be able to independently report on that, but the journey is underway. As a result of the Finch Group’s work, a programme devised by publishers, through the Publishers Licensing Society, and without funding from Government, will culminate in a Public Library Initiative. A technical pilot was successfully started on 9 September 2013 (see http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2013/09/18/uk-public-libraries-initiative-launches- technical-pilot/). This further demonstrates the industry’s commitment to OA. In December 2013 Government will also be announcing the official launch of the Research Councils’ Gateway to Research (see www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/gtr.aspx). This will demonstrate the enthusiasm that our Research Councils and their research communities have for sharing their knowledge in the interest of economic growth and enhancing our quality of life. These various initiatives have stemmed from OA. The Government’s responses below should reassure the Committee that we share a common objective and vision for the OA journey that Government and RCUK have successfully embarked the UK upon. DAVID WILLETTS 12 November 2013 Current Open Access Policy in the UK We are disappointed by the Government’s conclusion that “development of infrastructure for repositories will primarily be a matter for institutions themselves”, not least because the Government has spent £225m on repositories in recent years. We recommend that the Government takes an active role in working with the Joint Information Systems Committee and the UK Open Access Implementation Group to promote standardisation and compliance across subject and institutional repositories. (Paragraph 25) As stated in evidence to the Committee, repositories are being proactively developed and supported throughout the UK research community. Examples cited were the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC’s) Research Catalogue and the Department for International Development’s R4D (Research for Development).1 Similarly the Medical Research council (MRC) requires research papers to be placed in Europe PubMedCentral.2 The organic growth of repositories extends to international coordination and co-operation between repositories. The COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) plays a leading role and has a number of UK members including EDINA which represents the interests of Jisc and the UK repository infrastructure.3,4 1 See http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/ 2 See http://europepmc.org/ 3 See http//:edina.ac.uk/ 4 Historically Jisc stood for Joint Information Systems Committee but over the last decade the organisation has evolved and as a company is now known as Jisc. See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Open Access: Responses to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2013-14 3 Within the UK Jisc is developing a set of services to improve the performance of the UK’s shared repository infrastructure in partnership with EDINA and other delivery partners including MIMAS (a Jisc data centre at Manchester University), the Open University and Nottingham University, but all led and managed by Jisc. This role for Jisc has resulted from a sector consultation and the need to address governance and coordination across the multiple partners whilst pursuing its objective to improve the national repository infrastructure, promote good practice and greater interoperability. The Government, through HEFCE and the Research Councils, will continue to encourage Jisc, the Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) and others to promote standardisation and compliance across subject and institutional repositories. This is what the Government means by “the development of infrastructure for repositories being primarily a matter for the institutions themselves”.
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